Game Boy Advance (GBA) Games

[@DidYouKnowGamin]

Want more GameBoy trivia? Here's a whole hour of GB facts: kzbin.info/www/bejne/laa1h6SPlr99mas

[@hamtaro126]

Thumbs down again for sponsorship, DYKG!!!

[@Jotar0w0]

I hope your tik tok fails just like to food channel

[@ashproof]

These people will call you relentlessly to sign back up for several years after you cancel your subscription. Do not recommend.

[@alessiodangelo8378]

guys Bomba Rosa it's PINK bomb, not red bomb

[@posisoyyo]

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[@mrburnz884]

"One of the fish was working on a boulder puzzle..." I guarantee nobody has ever said that before.

[@blackbird7781]

I know right?!

[@nicka5040]

Michael Reeve's fish probably has.

[@red5robb1]

That fish from banjo tooie at the start failed its boulder puzzle, trapped him under it

[@jollytom09]

I mean life is just one big boulder puzzle for fish - specifically a water level boulder puzzle

[@aztro.99]

he said it in the video :^)

[@EarthboundBenjy]

The European version of GBA Fire Emblem also uses inconsistent names for the different nations - in dialogue you have Ositia, Biran and Lahus, while on the map scenes, you have Ostia, Bern and Laus. That game's localisation job was surprisingly low quality for a first-party Nintendo release.

[@Kirvyx]

Ostia tio

[@HappyLight.]

Haha, that's funny! Bern is the capital city of Switzerland.

[@ClefairyRox]

I played Blazing Blade on Wii U and I was stunned at how badly the effective weapons were translated. All of the swords that are armor effective say "effective against infantry" which is flat out wrong.

[@psychokinrazalon]

@@HappyLight. Elibe’s Bern is also a mountainous region.

[@ragnarokangaroo]

The GBA Pokemon games also had pretty bad localizations. "Fufufu..."

[@Level1Sword]

Backwards compatibility should be an industry standard. The systems which have it are extra special in my book.

[@TaliesinMyrddin]

Agreed so hard.

[@TheMeGuy1]

The only issue with backwards compatibility is that the hardware itself needs to have the physical components to be able to insert the readable material to play, and those physical components drive up the price of the system a lot. If you're talking digital-only though, that should definitely be industry standard.

[@Level1Sword]

@@TheMeGuy1 It doesn't have to necessarily raise the price of the system, if the engineering team is smart about it. The PS2's backwards compatibility was enabled by a PS1 SOC which doubled as the sound card for PS2 games. I believe the GBA was even able to take advantage of the Z80 for GB games in different ways (besides the processor being so old and outdated, they were probably super-cheap to include). When components used for backwards compatibility can serve double duty, it's a win-win.

[@TaliesinMyrddin]

@@TheMeGuy1 It's just so weird that Nintendo, with all its hardware revisions, was able to keep backwards compatibility as long as it did by the Playstation, which is essentially a computer in most iterations, somehow managed to mess up the PS3/4 enough that BC was something to work around

[@chrisofstars]

I think it's overrated. New systems are for new games. Backwards compatibility just makes a new system more expensive and I'd prefer to keep my old systems and not get rid of them so there's no real point of bw compatibility imo.

[@GameAW1]

Moral of the story: Hire fish to be your playtesters.

[@themoreno2600]

Imagine making a whole program to start a shitpost let's play with your pets then it turns out those fishes discover not one but TWO never seen before glitches in a +15 year old game. This is what the internet was made for.

[@guitar3544]

Awe man, seeing the Iwata tribute makes me sad. Still bums me out he's gone. He seemed to actually care about gaming and seemed like a great dude.

[@masterphazon]

I recommend checking out Reggie's book that just released, "Disrupting the Game". He mentions quite a few things about Iwata that prove without a shadow of a doubt that Iwata was the absolute best, and you really get a good look at what kind of man Iwata was behind the corporate visage he held in most public events.

[@graptakular]

GBA SP is legendary hardware.

[@Gadget-Walkmen]

100% yes! love it so much!

[@stwawbewwy]

I've had mine since 2003 and it still works!

[@ImmundaDeus]

Yes! Being able to play games at night never felt so good.

[@paulhiggins6433]

Still have mine and it still works fantasticly. Holds a charge great too, and still on the original battery.

[@sadied0g]

Big true. Playin mine right now 😫👌

[@zonesproductions]

I absolutely adored Minish Cap. That and Wind Waker are my favourite Zelda games.

[@sir.jinzu9426]

My ultra favorite games on the gba were DBZ Buu's Fury and MegaMan Battle Network 6 Cybeast Falzar/Gregar gosh I loved those games

[@austinknight5881]

Bombarossa also connects to mythical pirate Barbarossa, whose name came from... Red hair. With very similar etymology to Red bomb.

[@mds_main]

As a software engineer, I'm not surprised that the fishes were able to discover bugs. Their actions are almost random, doing things that do not make any sense in the context of the game, and these kinds of behaviors are difficult to detect for these very reasons and so one bug could hide in there only to be never found by a real human player.

[@GitsuneG]

Missed opportunity on the Din, Naryu, and Farore sidequest whether it’s unfinished or intentional in Minish Cap.

[@ThisIsCSDX]

Intentional as in a reference to Oracle of Seasons and Ages? Cause that's what I'm guessing you mean.

[@CrimsonMoonM]

@@ThisIsCSDX You can only get a house for two of the three maidens in Minish Cap. It might be an intentional reference to the scrapped third Oracle game that would've featured Farore in a leading role.

[@ThisIsCSDX]

@@CrimsonMoonM Ah ok, didn't think it was intentional or not. Though, I admittedly feel like DYKG discussed that once before, but I can't say if it was a specific video or a random piece of trivia in the extras.

[@CesarManiaX]

The GBA was basically a handheld SNES.

[@m2pt5]

The Pokemon game that never left Japan was... Pokemon Blue. (The game that the rest of the world knew as Blue was mostly based on Japanese Green. Japanese Blue was a "third" game that the rest of the world never saw, but the international versions of Red and Blue used the Pokemon sprites from Japanese Blue; Japanese Red and Green had different, largely inferior, sprites.)

[@BottomOfTheDumpsterFire]

Very close, but actually the international releases were made from the JP Pokemon Blue codebase, with some changes like trades reverted to the ones from Red and Green, while keeping the improved sprites, overworld art, and relative lack of glitches. So, technically, the West never saw Red and Green.

[@MiguelGarcia-vj7oo]

The international release is based off of blue version.....................

[@FalcusSTG]

@@MiguelGarcia-vj7oo It was actually based off of red and green, but using the updated systems from Japanese blue in both versions. Pokemon blue in Japan was closer to yellow international, but still not quite the same for obvious reasons. We never saw a version of Japanese blue outside of Japan.

[@m2pt5]

@@MiguelGarcia-vj7oo The international release is more of a mashup of Red+Blue and Green+Blue, no actual version of Japanese Blue ever released outside of Japan.

[@Marcos.ribeiro94]

As we can see the speedrunners just need to use fish to find new glitches, when they start to use them we'll have reached the golden age of speedrun.

[@austinknight5881]

"Pokemon fish%" incoming

[@IlliterateSage]

"Bombarossa" is also a play on the Ottoman naval general, Hayreddin Barbarossa (Italian for "red beard"), who secured imperial dominance during the 16th century. He helped put Algiers and much of Greece under Turkish control for over two centuries.

[@Rockzilla1122]

so thats why barbossa is the pirate lord of the caspian

[@kyoku1982]

Or it referenced the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa.

[@Mankey619]

The GBA is still going to be an all time great handhelds ever. This brought GBA SP,which later on brought the DS and 3DS. Nintendo always made the best handhelds ever made for the past 30 plus years.

[@SirSogMuffins]

The GBA was the best handheld to grow up with. The sheer amount of quality games is just mind boggling

[@glungusgongus]

Switch is blatantly better

[@V-Jes]

With the obvious issues like no backlight, limited buttons and screen crunch, while systems like PSP and Switch meanwhile didn't have any of those issues...

[@SirSogMuffins]

@@V-Jes the SP solved the backlight issues, and the PSP had just as small of a screen with a far worse catalogue of games and terrible build quality (those things were always breaking). The switch is good but still suffers from poor battery life (not to mention its not even fair to compare a console hand-held hybrid).

[@V-Jes]

@@SirSogMuffins dude the PSP was literally the only handheld with no screen issues until the 3DS and Vita so saying that screen was small is just complete bs, not to mention PSP had plenty of great games on it along with access to PS1 games as well for a great library of games overall, while comparing Switch to other handhelds is fair considering it is just a handheld with a dock that connects to a TV what is something even the PSP could do yet is still considered a handheld...

[@glungusgongus]

@@SirSogMuffins I'd say its fair.

[@Pandsu]

I feel like the Milk in Minish Cap would originally turn into Butter if Link rolled around too much, not by having an NPC do it.

[@Lucas-db2jq]

I like how you used the imposing final boss music from Circle of the Moon while talking about the silly RakugaKids easter egg. Man that final form of Dracula completely pulverized my soory little hopes as akid so many times.

[@theonlybilge]

CotM was removed from the canon, so your effort was for nothing.

[@mizusenshisongs]

Man I miss the GBA. It had some good games.

[@pestydesperado8771]

warioware was incredible, I still play it on a phone emulator, better than any mobile game

[@EpicGamenator]

Neat to see that for 9 years the style of content haven't changed much

[@latecore_]

they've got it down. if it ain't broke...

[@Rosiepunzel]

Oh just wait They made a video explaing their plans to change their content style to longer videos for some stupid reason

[@ShinziiArt]

@@Rosiepunzel nooo

[@glungusgongus]

@@Rosiepunzel Their reason was blatantly good.

[@sehtuk3953]

@@glungusgongus I agree it's a good change, but moving these shorter trivia videos entirely to TikTok is a bad move imo

[@brunoacuna4540]

i absolutely love fish that accidentally trigger extremely rare glitches while playing pokémon

[@chrisofstars]

Same

[@wolfdogdav]

Game Boy Advance is probably the most unique of the handhelds. A lot of creativity and spirit in those games... I miss it.

[@graptakular]

Agreed, the limits of the hardware only seemed to make developers try harder and produce better results.

[@chrisofstars]

@@graptakular However, at the same time, long time Nintendo developers had a more powerful Gameboy to program for now. So thus you have a Renaissance of great games on the GBA because of it being more powerful and also limiting.

[@Mr.Foxhat]

It still hurts my soul that there hasn't been a Did You Know Gaming episode on the Fable game series.

[@NamelessGamer29]

Imagine you’re a play tester for a video game and a fish finds more bugs than you

[@Sad7Statue]

The fact that 2 separate fish each discovered a glitch is so crazy to me haha

[@ArchOfWinter]

If I have a nickel every time a fish had found a never been discovered bug in an old video game, I would have two. That's not a lot, but it's weird it happened twice.

[@khaledking5408]

Truly one of the best libraries any console has ever had

[@L33PL4Y]

No way. Like the DS and Wii, the GBA was absolutely filled with shitty shovelware, because the GBA was where awful licensed games started flooding the market.

[@sarthaksingh5480]

Yes they are good even those time when there were less technology exists. I thought how developers get idea and references to create such a wonderful games that time when there is aren't KZbin Exists.

[@daniellelondon439]

I always love people getting their fish to play Pokémon.

[@skeven0]

its not the first time a fish played it, a long time ago when TwitchPlaysPokemon originally started, there were FishPlaysPokemon channels

[@kyrum1234]

I actually did a spittake when I saw starfy gameplay, I really wope that the first 4 games get localized at some point

[@javib2978]

Fire Emblem is technically owned by Intelligent Systems.

[@ShadowRealmZ373]

Those fishes need to be bug testers

[@7niahceulb]

Fish discovering glitches, now I've heard it all.

[@EduSolsa]

Huh, a fish discovering bugs? That is something we don't see everyday =O

[@mattwo7]

12:22 They went from "Twitch Plays" to "Fish Plays" a natural evolution to be sure.

[@JeremyPeeples]

Hopefully, Rakuga Kids hits NSO one day.

[@Kittenfox_55]

Starfy was awesome, I need the series localized here in the west!

[@NekkoBlue]

Never thought the natural evolution of Twitch Plays Pokémon would be fish playing them lol

[@shuuichissaihara]

I was there when the fish beat Steven live truly the highlight of 2020

[@Kazuo1G]

Actually, "Rakugaki" means "Doodle/Sketch/Drawing" in Japanese. So the real translation of Castlevania's easter egg source could be "KartoonKids".

[@DidYouKnowGamin]

No. Rakuga Kids is the name of the game in which BearTank appears. It was released, in English, with that title. Rakugaki does mean that, but that isn't its name :P

[@milesedgeworth3010]

@@DidYouKnowGamin The game is らくがきっず which is a combination of the word rakugaki 落書き and kids キッズ. I think the narrator could have done a better job with the pronunciation and maybe explain a bit of the pun instead of leaving the audience wondering what in the world is a Rakuga.

[@Kazuo1G]

@@milesedgeworth3010 Heck, it could even be "Kidoodles".

[@IAmNotAFunguy]

During WarioWare's credits you can also change the color of the flying shapes to red or green. I think you use the shoulder buttons for that.

[@SeiferA2001]

Good to know that fish are the kings of game breaking

[@firecoroner]

Minish cap was a trip, and I still play Pokémon pinball.

[@cliffturbo2146]

0:12 As a kid, I never knew you could Play GBA games on it😅

[@Arcanua]

The bit with Aenir isn't a translation error. It's not different to if you said "going to the king" or similar...it's just a quirk of English and how you can word things.

[@ArcRay20]

2:09 "Do not matrix with stereo" that little joke live in my head rent free and i dont know why.

[@Nirakolov]

5:45 ish - that's something that always bugged me about Japanese games, and goes all the way back to Final Fantasy. The Japanese developers would go "well, the series didn't take off in the west so we didn't localize them"... but never released them here in the first place, like even back in the 80s they were expecting people to pirate games to generate popularity.

[@chrisofstars]

Yeah the Japanese game industry has some strange logic especially back in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s.. they still do, really.

[@empoleonmaster6709]

Speaking of GBA stuff, please cover Megaman Battle Network, it's heavily beloved by those that played it growing up.

[@fin2926]

I just beat the game yesterday- really sad it already end. :(

[@GigaBowserNS]

>Starts talking about Four Swords >Shows footage from Four Swords Adventures

[@cheaterman49]

9:35 Very interesting, because that could also explain the choice of color, right? Yellow reminds me more of butter than milk!

[@HelpTheWretched]

I've been checking out some translations of the Zelda series lately, and the Italian versions generally stick pretty close to the Japanese.

[@j05h909]

Agreed bring back virtual console

[@subzippo]

You could probably do one of these on just Wario Ware games. Maybe even one video per game.

[@giacomovalenti8619]

Yes, "bomba rossa" means red bomb but you're saying "bomba rosa" which means PINK bomb! :) "roSSa" has a dry "s" sound like "sun" (also it is doubled in length because there are 2). Now you can use this to say Porco Rosso (from Studio Ghibli) or Portorosso (from Pixar's Luca) :D

[@BottomOfTheDumpsterFire]

7:29 That's grammatically correct, guys. While mommy shouldn't be capitalized, it could be if it's a character's "name".

[@ralpheid905]

All hail the fishes

[@TheCreepypro]

nice to see a video on my favorite handheld

[@justageorgeandmore]

Loved that when this popped up in my feed, I immediately thought "Alright another video with Pokemon at the end!" Love these fact videos! I can't wait to see more

[@dannybeane2069]

I think Nintendo should allow fish to perform bug tests for their games; since apparently they're good betta testers.

[@goranisacson2502]

You saw the chance for a pun and took it- a like is yours, well-deserved.

[@chrisofstars]

+2

[@cvanims]

2 fishes find glitches on mainstream Nintendo games, but I can't perform one even if I try and watch a video guide.

[@austinknight5881]

IS THAT WHAT LANGUAGE... I just assumed I had a wonk copy of Fire Emblem (the full title in the USA, yes it causes confusion) or that it was supposed to be confusing. Now I know!

[@eldestisland4520]

I love gba games. Thanks for this!

[@totalphantasm]

Apparently, when you just spend hours a day pressing random directions and pressing A on every square possible, sometimes you end up finding a glitch.

[@luliby2309]

Thank you for saying that Circle Of The Moon is good! I swear, some of the reviews treat it like it's absolute crap. What I played was definitely not crap.

[@3DSage]

You would enjoy my 3D homebrew GBA games like Minecraft! I love the GBA so thank you for making this video!

[@catriamflockentanz]

0:51 Checking out Four Swords on the GBA within a tight budget is an... interesting idea...

[@ReddCinema]

Your consistency and quality of content never disappoints! ❤

[@Claugustus]

It is now my life's goal to play that Pokemon Pinball machine.

[@hannahd366]

If I had a dime for every time a fish discovered a glitch in a Pokémon game, I’d have 20¢- which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice

[@Absbor]

fishies discovering secrets? hell yes

[@Forever_Zero]

These are really cool bits of information, especially because I've played a ton of Castlevania and Wario ware and I didn't know this

[@masterofdoom5000]

STARFY MY SON, I NEVER THOUGHT I'D SEE HIM HERE!

[@Altais_]

I swear those fish were QA testers in a past life

[@kailiahmoon]

I watched the drawing fighting game video and it wasn't that bad!~

[@K1ttenface]

Never realised Rakuga Kids never came out in America, I had a UK copy back in the day. Always wondered why it's mentioned so little online.

[@LostSoulSilver]

Hell yeah it's the GBA!!! Thank you!!!!! 💗

[@KaldraJayd]

Those fish should be "betta" testers

[@ArcRay20]

what are the friggin odds a of a fish finding a mostly unknown glitch in a pokemon game? twice!?

[@33Ocelot]

YES! STARFY GAMES YES! Have my mega upvote!

[@Ericnorify]

I remember playing my gameboy color on a beach and seeing another kid with a gba for the first time. I was equally amazed and jealous.

[@chrisofstars]

Your Gameboy Advance moment sounds like my Mario 3 moment. I went to the video store with my dad because I wanted to rent Mario Bros. 2 but then I saw some kid with Mario Bros 3. in his hand that I had never seen before and I was so immediately jealous and amazed lol.

[@StaticDraco]

clearly what this proves is that every beta testing team needs an aquarium to always be running the latest build

[@malick9549]

10:57 Bomba Rosa actually means Pink Bomb and not Red Bomb as Pink=Rosa, Red Bomb would be Bomba Rossa.

[@Adalhaid_]

I miss the Advance War franchise.

[@chrisofstars]

I spent a lot of hours on it on my GBA SP. I'm sad the remake got delayed..

[@leviwarren6222]

*sigh* This is what happens when a KZbin channel gets big enough that they hire out every part of their production. You get a "did you know" about Four Swords on the game boy with video of Four Swords Adventures.

[@LeonStephan]

The GBA is more than just Zelda, Pokemon, FE and Castlevania. A video on more games other than the usual famous ones would be nice because EVERYBODY talks about how great Zelda and Pokemon are, it's tiring already.

[@RoseDeDax]

Just recently found a gameboy advanced sp in my storage.

[@chrisofstars]

Time to get some games

[@RoseDeDax]

@@chrisofstars already did have 18 games :)

[@vodkaffee4856]

im still playing most of the gba library in my.. totally legal gba-clone

[@NintenSegaPlay]

Could you bring back numbers on these videos? I was confused since I thought I already saw this video

[@leahluostarinen]

I remember when I owned a GBA at one point myself but i didn't have a very good light on the screen

[@Oerbyss022]

But, one needs to click start in order to progress in Pokemon RSE. How does one teach HM's to their party?

[@SuperLuigi1025]

That man at the end is raising gamer fish. Next thing you know your going be on GTA online and your going to die but to a fish instead of a human.

[@ThisIsCSDX]

Really hoping you don't stop doing the shorter videos like these.

[@casual3123]

STARFY STARFY STARFY

[@NitroIndigo]

We need to get fish to playtest games.

[@AmericanChoirboy]

we should have more fish play games

[@RedFire998]

man, I still have my GBA from back in the day, but I really need to do some work on it... like a backlit screen and restore the plastic a bit, since it yellowed for me a few years back. Maybe one day!

[@chrisofstars]

Just buy a GBA SP. It's still the best way to play the Gameboy Advance besides the Gameboy Player, imo.

[@Matthewchavalia]

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